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cry out

cry out verb: to shout or speak in a loud voice, due to pain, fear or unhappiness.

Verb

cry out (third-person singular simple present cries out, present participle crying out, simple past and past participle cried out)

  1. To shout or speak in a loud voice, due to pain, fear or unhappiness.
    • Vſurers, you are none of theſe cryers vnto God, but thoſe that hourely vnto God are most cryde out againſt. God hath cryde out vnto you by his Preachers, GOD hath cride out vnto you by the poore ; Pryſoners on their death-beds haue cride out of you : and when they haue had but one houre to...1593, Thomas Nash, Christs Teares Over Iervsalem. Whereunto is annexed a comparatiue admonition to London., London: Thomas Thorp, published 1613, →OCLC, page 105; republished as Christ's Tears Over...
    • Do you cry out in your sleep?1979, Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart
  2. To need.
    • Your book cries out to be edited.

cry out meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

cry out in Hindi

to cry out
चिल्लाना cillānā

cry out in Tamil

புலம்பு, கெம்பு, கெம்புதல், கூப்பிடு

cry out in Urdu

to cry out, to make an outcry, to shout, to exclaim aloud, to yell
چلانا cillānā

cry out in Bengali

to shout in a loud voice due to pain, fear, or unhappiness
চিল্লানি cillani
More languagesFewer languages
cry out in Telugu
వాపోవు vāpōvu
cry out in Malayalam
എക്കരയ്ക്കുക ekkaraykkuka
cry out in Kannada
ಸಾರು, ಊಳ್, ಊಳು, ಒರಲು
cry out in Sanskrit
क्रुश् kruś, क्रोशति króśati

Forms of cry out

third-person singular presentcries out
present participlecrying out
past participlecried out
pastcried out

Questions about cry out

What does cry out mean?
Cry out means to shout or speak in a loud voice, due to pain, fear or unhappiness.
What is cry out in Hindi?
Cry out in Hindi is चिल्लाना (cillānā). See Cry out meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cry out?
Cry out is a verb.
What is the past tense of cry out?
The past tense of cry out is cried out.

Words near cry out in the dictionary

  1. cry like a little girl
  2. cry off
  3. cry on
  4. cry one's eyes out
  5. cry oneself to sleep
  6. cry out
  7. cry out for
  8. cry over spilt milk
  9. cry poormouth
  10. cry room
  11. cry rooms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cry out (page history and authors); चिल्लाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); cry out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چلانا (Urdu) (page history and authors); వాపోవు (Telugu) (page history and authors); എക്കരയ്ക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); cry out (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); क्रुश् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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